How to be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work and Everything （2ND）

McDermott, Steve

Pearson Life（2007/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780273706076
• DDC分類 158.1

Full Description

How to be a Complete and Utter Failure turns the concept of self-improvement on its head. It brings together 43 and a half leading ideas in personal and business development, and offers a total antedote to the motivational, gung-ho, over-enthused tone of all the usual self-improvement guides. 

Delivered in fast, easily digestible chunks, in a style that makes you laugh while you learn, this book offers tongue-in-cheek advice about what not to do to ensure certain failure in every aspect of your life. From not having any goals, to not getting advice from people you've never met or who are dead, to not taking personal responsibility for your life and results, every idea, strategy, suggestion and story is guaranteed to propel you into the slow lane of total inadequacy and has been tested with thousands of real people.

How to be a Complete and Utter Failure comes with a warning - that you don't think about taking the direct opposite steps to those outlined in the guide, as this could seriously damage your chances of becoming a failure. Behind the humour, though, is good advice and a serious message. And whether you choose to heed the warning or not, it's an extremely entertaining read.  

Contents

Preface to the second edition

How to get the most from this guide

Introduction

 

Step one                Don't decide what you want. If you do decide what you want, don't think about why you want it. And if you do decide why you want it, commit to believing you can't have it.

Step two                Don't do things on purpose

Step three              Don't stop working for a living

Step four                Don't know what you value in life (and if you do, lose sight of it)

Step five                Don't spend any of your time in the future

Step six                  Don't have any goals

Step seven             If you do have goals, don't put them in writing, and if you do, don't think too big

Step eight              Don't plan your priorities

Step nine               Don't involve other people

Step ten                 Don't have a mentor or be a mentor

Step eleven            Don't get advice from people you've never met or who are dead

Step twelve           Don't take action right now

Step thirteen          Don't get feedback on your actions

Step fourteen         Don't adjust

Step fifteen            Don't get even more feedback, don't be flexible...(you get the idea)

Step sixteen           Don't practise continuous improvement

Step seventeen       Don't wear a parachute

Step eighteen         Don't change your beliefs

Step nineteen         Don't stop having a deep fear of failure and of making a fool of yourself

Step twenty           Don't take personal responsibility for your life and results

Step twenty-one     Don't stop believing in luck

Step twenty-two     Don't expand your comfort zone

Step twenty-three  Don't use inside-out thinking

Step twenty-four    Don't put things in before you try to take things out

Step twenty-five    Don't control your moods

Step twenty-six      Don't transform your language

Step twenty-seven  Don't think about the first four minutes

Step twenty-eight   Don't talk and think about what you want

Step twenty-nine    Don't go to the movies

Step thirty             Don't stop being an unthinking dog

Step thirty-one       Don't ask 'How do you do that?' Don't act 'as if'. And don't be naïve.

Step thirty-two